today i will be sharing a story about my work
I am living in the san francisco bay area
I work for japanese company at the moment
and the industry is semiconductor related
it has been almost 3 years since I moved to US
so today i will be talking about
how to get relocated to US,
what kind of job what I am doing ,
what do you struggle with
what is the difference between Japanese and American work culture
I work for manufacturing company
semiconductor related industry
Right after graduating University, I have started working got this company
it has been 5 years
at the time I was relocated to US
For the 1st -2nd year, I was doing completely different job than what I am doing now
not even semiconductor related
different industry
I was sales associate in Japan
There are products that we need promote
for market in Japan
i had several clients in charge
every month
I needed to achieve sale target
in order to do so, I was promoting the products to clients
negotiating price, holding seminar for them, arranging deal package for them....
sometimes I visited the site where our products will be installing
I was a typical Sales associate in Japan
I was not good at that job
struggling
and i was considering to change my job
or transferring different position internally
there are internal recruitment
and there are lots of open position in different department
I found the position that I am interested in
it was sales and marketing position for semiconductor industry
Luckily
I knew someone from the department
I could ask them
what kind of job is it, what kind of skilled person they are looking for
I was more interested in
I started networking through the person
I wanted to know myself and let them know that I am interested in the position
people in the department started to know me
and interested in me
but at that time
there are lack of people in my department
our managements did not want me to transfer to different department
they did not even let me applying for the job
my motivation was down
Started to look for a job outside
in the same year,
I was relocated to different job and in charge of even bigger project
it appears to me it might be an opportunity to improve my skill and career as a business person
I took the opportunity and started motivated again for the job
it was very challenging
and I was able to manage projects that I have not done before
I grow as a business person more
however, I still think I can be better at the job I wanted to do
and it's not fair they did not even let me apply for the job
I decided to try the position again
to be satisfied with my job
this time I was very careful
not just networking the department I am interested in
I was discussing this with my boss and upper management
to convince them to be transferred to different position
Finally I could apply for the job and got the position successfully
in the new position
I was in charge of client in US
so I go to US basically every months as a business trip
not only in US, I go to Korea and Taiwan
also I need to travel in Japan
so my working style was completely changed compares to the previous job
after 8 months
I was relocated to US
I did not expect to be moved to US so quickly
but the person working in US left the job suddenly
Also the department was pretty new organization so there are not much people in the department
so that I was selected as a candidate and I ended up relocating to US
I only can talk about what it's be like working as an expat in my company
typically Japanese manufacturing company
the expat is relocated to brunch office in each country as a supervisor
they are in charge of managing the brunch office
They needed to achieve sales profit goal and in order to achieve the goal, they manage the marketing, sales activities and so on...
they need to expand the business more and report the situation to HQ
my colleague in China and Germany
they are relocated to the region as a marketing and sales planning job
in detail, they work with local team to make a strategy
to promote the products
also forecasting revenue for the months, Quarter, year and report back to HQ
something like that...
As for my job,
I am a sale/project manager
what exactly what I am doing is
I work with client in Silicon Valley
Supply chain department is my counter partner
with them, we are working on product development
working on new technology, co-developing products that we want to be launch in 2-3 years
there are several projects with them in parallel
As a project manager I am managing these project from scratch to HVM
my goal is those product will be launched as HVM product within the schedule and budget
therefore I communicate with client often
I am usually at their site, 2-3 times a week
having meeting with them most of the time
due to COVIT19
I am working from home
I usually joining skype meeting with them more than 3 times a week
there are 2 different challenge as expat and simply working in US
struggles as an expat are
I need to work longer hour than local team
This only applies to my company but
manufacturing factory and R&D site are located in Japan
that's why I need to communicate with Japan often
there is a time difference between Japan and US
For example, my schedule usually looks like this
start working from 9-10 am, checking email, phone call, text with client
preparing meeting for the afternoon
in the afternoon
I have a meeting with client for 2-3 hours depending on the topic we have
I will summary the meeting and do some action items
at 4-5 pm, Japan is opened
I do have 2-3 meeting with Japan team usually
when Japan is taking lunch break which is 8 pm here, I usually eat dinner at home
after that, I work a bit for tomorrow's meeting with clients or asking some info to team in Japan
so I usually work up until 10 PM...
I feel more confident working as a female business person in US
I divided to 2 parts for this video
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I will be talking about difference between Japan and US working culture
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